New Music from Monolord

New music from Monolord. I've always been a bit on the fence with these guys. Nothing on them, I think they came into my awareness at the same time a bunch of other similar bands did, back around twelve years ago. This track is pretty cool, though. New album, Neverending, is out May 29th on Relapse. Pre-order HERE.

 

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I cannot believe that James Gunn has made me care so much about characters I loathe in all previous iterations, and just aesthetically in general. But that's where we are.

I get the kind of chills watching this, I used to get from Marvel's trailers waaaaay back before they sank the ship with Civil War. And while Gunn is the "showrunner" here, no small debt to Director Craig Gillespie, whose I, Tonya and 2011 Fright Night remake both rule (yeah, I like the remake. Deal with it!).

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Playlist:

Steve Moore - Jimmy & Stiggs OST

sunn O))) - Loser

High On Fire - Cometh the Storm

Zeal & Ardor - Eponymous

The Mountain Goats - Bleed Out

Barry Adamson - Scala! OST

White Hex - Gold Nights

Saigon Blue Rain - Oko

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Live God

Double Life - Indifferent Stars

Mascara - Going Postal

Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain

The Replacements - Tim

Spoon - The Want My Soul

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Quick pull before I headed out on my trip:

• 5 of Swords: Defeat

• VI: The Lovers

• XV: The Devil

I drove up to Chicago today. This trip started out as a "holy shit, we made it to 50!" celebration for Mr. Brown and me, and that's still essentially what it is, but it's also become a "Holy shit, Beyondfest is now in Chicago, too!" trip. I'm staying with my sister and her husband through Monday morning, at which time I will drive down to the South side and set up camp at Mr. Brown's until we see Plague Bringer on Saturday. First show in 10 years, and first show for either of us. Can't wait.

In the interim, I'm just soaking in not going to work for seven days (!) and Chicago! This pull tells me two things: I'm lessened without K with me (she didn't want to take this many days off work), and I'm open to squashing pre-conceived notions and receiving new, possibly 'heretical' ideas.

Bring it on!!!

Monolord - The Weary

I'm not a huge Monolord fan - in fact, I kind of don't understand why I don't like them more than I do based on all the ingredients they create their music with. I think it has a bit to do with how fanatical I am about Windhand, and the fact that you can really only listen to so many Doom/Stoner bands and feel a unique rush from them. Whatever the case, by saying all this, it is definitely not my intention to derate or downplay them. Monolord is a solid fucking band, with a couple really great records. I just get winded listening to them after only a song or two (most of the time).

This new track, however, is fantastic and feels just different enough that maybe this is their release I'll really become hung up on. Either way, Your Time to Shine drops October 29th on Relapse Records, and you can pre-order your copy HERE. 

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Beyondfest announces their line-up tomorrow. It's 9/29-10/11, so I will be out of town during roughly half of it. I think at this point, the movie I want to see the most is Julia Ducournau's Titane. This is one of those films I have read next to nothing about and the trailer, which I saw on the big screen before The Green Knight last month, looks amazing without telling you anything about the film.

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Playlist:

Perturbator - Dangerous Days

Ghost - Enter Sandman (Cover)

Monolord - The Weary (pre-release single)

Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower

Metallica - Eponymous

White Hex - Gold Nights

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Affirmation that although I keep rewriting the same damn section of the new book, my efforts are not wasted.